Qin Fengming knew that cultivating required a cultivator to comprehend the Great Dao with their own heart. Thus, all he had given Ji Rou was a direction; he had not bestowed any pills upon her.
Ji Rou knelt on the ground and kowtowed nine times with resounding thuds before rising. This young Martial Uncle before her had shocked her too deeply. Leaving that cultivation method aside, even these talismans were things the entire Ji Household could not have bought with several years of savings.
Just as Ji Rou was filled with excitement, a figure suddenly flashed in from outside the courtyard. It was none other than the Ji Household's patriarch, Ji Liang.
"Senior Qin, those two Core Formation cultivators have already arrived outside the valley. Old Ancestor asks Senior to wait in the front hall. He will bring the two of them to the hall shortly."
Ji Liang did not delay. As soon as he entered the room, he spoke hurriedly.
As it turned out, the Ji Household had not been idle these past few days. At Old Ancestor Ji's personal command, everyone from Ji Tang's branch had been placed under supervision and forbidden from entering or leaving freely, lest one of them pass some message to those two Core Formation cultivators.
Then, several clever disciples had been specially sent into the Qingyun Mountain Range to wander and hunt. Intentionally or otherwise, they had revealed to that Foundation Establishment cultivator that Ji Rou had returned. That was how these two Core Formation cultivators had come to pay their respects at the mountain.
Qin Fengming followed Ji Liang back to the reception hall, while Li Ning and Ji Rou remained in the courtyard.
After the time it took an incense stick to burn, Old Ancestor Ji entered the hall, surrounded by